Comment on Recycling: Plans for electrical goods to be included in UK collections
bugsmith@programming.dev 1 year ago
My district council has collected small electrical items for asong as I can remember. I was surprised to find out that not all councils do this.
As much as I think it’s a good thing for councils to have control over their local budgets (so long as they’re funded adequately…), I think it’s a poor system to let councils take on individual recycling contracts. The buying power alone should make a unified contract more economical. It’s mad that moving from one town to another can put you into a council that offers a poorer service, likely for a similar cost (if comparing neighbouring councils).
deluxeparrot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I agree. I have no idea why refuse isn’t dealt with nationally. Collections handled by local council put processing and policy dealt with nationally.
Then everything wouldn’t need to be labelled with probably recyclable.